Linear attention glow-up: once mocked as Linformer, now mainstream in Qwen3.8

marktenenholtz · x · 2026-10-10

Mark Tenenholtz jokes about linear attention's glow-up: models using linear attention used to get goofy names like Linformer, but now the architecture is simply shipped as mainstream models like Qwen3.8 — a one-liner capturing how linear attention went from research curiosity to production-grade design.

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